I had gotten my migraine level down to a manageable 1-2 migraines per week, which I could totally handle, thanks to 150mg of Topamax per day and a little bit of sleep each day, Biofeedback, and decent (if not completely adequate) painkillers for the migraines that did sneak through. But for the last 3 weeks solid, I have had a migraine every single day. It might just be one solid migraine. I can’t even tell anymore. It never quits. I wake up with a migraine. I go to sleep with a migraine. I spend much of my day cringing in pain with the migraine. I can barely function most nights because of the migraines.
I know if I could just break the cycle, I could probably get free of it for a while. But how?
On my way down to Richmond yesterday, I called my neurologist out of desperation. Normally, I’d wait until I was due to go in and see him, but I’ve been doing so well, I’m actually not due to see him again until January. He called me right back (thank heavens for cell phones, right?) and suggested that I raise my Topamax dosage to 200mg per day for a couple of days and hope that it doesn’t make me too loopy (Topamax is not called Dopamax for nothing). If that doesn’t help within a couple of days, I should come into the office and we’ll consider putting me on a course of Prednisone for a few days to try to break the cycle. For some reason a steroid course often breaks these cycles.
We’ll see what happens. I’m betting I’ll be in his office on Friday afternoon. I just need some relief. I’m not sure I can make it through another weekend of this, and that’s saying a LOT. I’ve been getting migraines since I was two years old and I have been dealing with this kind of cycle forever. You would think I could with this by now. But this time, with my reserves so low, I’m just not prepared to deal with it.
ChezPerky 